SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Myth
Allegory
Motif
Allusion
2. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Conceit
Symbolism
Point of View
Analogy
3. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Aside
Literal Language
Irony
Characterization
4. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Myth
Dialect
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Paradox
5. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Stereotype
Tone
Subplot
Complication
6. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Connotation
Epic
Foreshadowing
Syntax
7. A character struggles against some outside force.
Catharsis
Lyric Poem
External Conflict
Imagery
8. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Enjambment
Solioquy
Closed Form
Character
9. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Convention
Irony
Sestina
Internal Conflict
10. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Falling Action
Imagery
Character
Structure
11. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Tone
Tercet
Climax
Free Verse
12. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Foot
Aside
Mood
Stereotype
13. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Verbal Irony
Fiction
Connotation
Complication
14. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Subject
Metaphor
Antagonist
Sestina
15. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
Recognition
Verbal Irony
Free Verse
16. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Blank Verse
Irony
Conceit
Legend
17. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Suspense
Falling Meter
Hyperbole
Sestet
18. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Paradox
Metaphor
Stereotype
Myth
19. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Characterization
Synecdoche
Villanelle
Oxymoron
20. A strong pause within a line.
Free Verse
Denouement
Oxymoron
Caesura
21. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Persona
Hyperbole
Aubade
Falling Meter
22. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Recognition
Rhyme
Act
Theme
23. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Convention
Connotation
Sestet
Free Verse
24. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Literal Language
Narrator
Rhythm
Tercet
25. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
1st Person
Persona
Denotation
Simile
26. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Denotation
Mood
Internal Conflict
Falling Action
27. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Understatement
Satire
Point of View
Syntax
28. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Villanelle
Narrative Poem
Reversal
Recognition
29. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Parable
Folklore
Conflict
Theme
30. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Exposition
Foreshadowing
Ballad
Conflict
31. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Situational Irony
Understatement
Paradox
Motif
32. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Exposition
Parody
Internal Conflict
Imagery
33. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Figurative Language
Exposition
Paradox
Dactyl
34. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Blank Verse
Rhyme
Personification
Style
35. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Foil
Sestina
Climax
Closed Form
36. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Onomatopoeia
Falling Meter
Denotation
Epic
37. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Allegory
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Parody
Blank Verse
38. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Persona
Symbol
Scenes
Metaphor
39. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Rising Action
Point of View
Image
Diction
40. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Subplot
Theme
Caesura
41. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Trochee
Parody
Allusion
Rhyme
42. Broken down acts.
Aside
Persona
Scenes
Literal Language
43. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Theme
Allusion
Repetition
Sestina
44. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Aside
Narrative Poem
Symbolism
Setting
45. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Caesura
Rhyme
Irony
Parable
46. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Myth
Epic
Symbol
Subject
47. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Setting
Blank Verse
Diction
Literal Language
48. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Reversal
Climax
Assonance
Subplot
49. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Hyperbole
Apostrophe
Oxymoron
Understatement
50. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Spondee
Tercet
Parable
Stereotype